“We still had to go through the act of excavating, of brushing the earth away, of trowelling,” explained Fiennes. M (Ralph Fiennes), Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and Tanner (Rory Kinnear) in a tense moment in M's office in NO TIME TO DIE. Director Simon Stone concealed “artefacts” in the soil for the discovery scenes.

The two become unlikely friends, a meeting of minds fuelled by their love of history and the land, and face a race against time to uncover the artefacts and protect the site before war breaks out.Īlong with the rest of the cast, the actor also learnt excavation techniques from the archaeologist on the shoot. That’s my favourite.”įiennes plays local amateur archaeologist, Basil Brown, who was employed by the owner of Sutton Hoo (Carey Mulligan) to excavate the site. Slipping into his Suffolk twang, he admitted, “I like that Adnams. It was a different thing trying to speak it.”Īs both the film and the interview show, he mastered the accent – and visiting those pubs gave him a taste for the local brew as well. I’ve heard Suffolk spoken before, I’m familiar with the accent, but this time I just listened. “It was Charlie I went on the pub crawl with. Read more: Disney+ announces huge new content dropĪway from filming, Fiennes continued his immersion in the accent – by going on a pub crawl.

And I had an assistant on set, Jay Ducker, who is from the East Suffolk area, so I could test a few bits of dialect with him as well.” He’s an expert on the history of spoken English. That person was Charlie Haylock, who lives in Sudbury. “There are all sorts of subtle, local differences that an outsider can’t hear.

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